徐光启对《崇祯历书》的编译与其实际成效的问题研究

The Problem Research about Xu Guangqi's Compiling and Translation of "ChongZhen calendar"and Its Real Effect

徐光启是我国近代科学的先驱,一生在天文历法的科研活动中成就卓著。他对《崇祯历书》的编译,劳苦功高,然而在明清王朝,众多学者在“会通以求超胜”的思潮中,掀起了长达二百多年“夷夏之辩”和“西学中源说”的争论。可以说,鉴于历史的背景如中国传统的“文化中心主义态度”、儒家经学文化的影响,以及现实的原因如明清时人为摆脱理论困境的作用,此种结果也是历史辩证法使然。

Xu Guangqi was a pioneer of the modern science of our country; the achievement was distinguished in the scientific research activity of astronomical calendar in all one＇s life. His Compiling and translation of “ChongZhen calendar”, the contribution was very great, but in Ming Qing Dynasties more than 200 years, numerous scholars among ideological trend that was “coherent in order to exceed and win”, raising the debate “Yi-Xia Dispute” and “Western Sciences Mirror Chinese Origin”. We can say, in the view of the background of history, for instance, the traditional “doctrine attitude of cultural center” in China, the influence through the Confucians and realistic reason, if break away from the function of the theory predicament when the Ming and Qing dynasties, this kind of result was made by historical dialectics too.